HOW TIGRAY COMMUNITY SAVED AXUM TREASURES
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Not all of Africa’s treasures were looted - it helped, for example, if you hid it under a mountain!
That’s what the ancestors of Ethiopia’s Tigray community did in the town of Axum.
Locals knew from folklore that there was something special under the local mountain, so when a road-construction project started drilling into the rock a decade or so back, they urged the authorities to intervene.
This they did, and what they found only added to Axum’s fame - already dubbed an ‘open air museum’ and designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1980.
In this clip, travel vlogger Weyni Tesfin (aka @planbacktoafrica) tells the tale in full from the site itself.
Do you think you’ll visit?
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